Kenji Higuchi
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has been a professor of photography
at several institutions in Tokyo
, and an instructor at the . He is the eldest son of a farmer and at the age of 24 took up photography after viewing Robert Capa
's famous anti-war photos. He published some of the first images of nuclear workers toiling inside a reactor in 1977. Higuchi's photos mainly depict people and situations associated with nuclear issues and he won a Nuclear-Free Future Award
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Higuchi has documented the struggles of radiation victims and, over a half-century, has written 19 books, including “The Truth About Nuclear Plants” and “Erased Victims.” Since the 2011 Fukushima I nuclear accidents his work has gained more attention.
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
at several institutions in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
, and an instructor at the . He is the eldest son of a farmer and at the age of 24 took up photography after viewing Robert Capa
Robert Capa
Robert Capa was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War...
's famous anti-war photos. He published some of the first images of nuclear workers toiling inside a reactor in 1977. Higuchi's photos mainly depict people and situations associated with nuclear issues and he won a Nuclear-Free Future Award
Nuclear-Free Future Award
Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award is an award given to anti-nuclear activists, organizations and communities. The award is intended to promote the opposition to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power....
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Higuchi has documented the struggles of radiation victims and, over a half-century, has written 19 books, including “The Truth About Nuclear Plants” and “Erased Victims.” Since the 2011 Fukushima I nuclear accidents his work has gained more attention.